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Sunday, 1 August 2010

My first Christmas card this year

Good Morning All!And a happy monday to you.

The colour swatch and piccy over on Stacey`s blog Curtain Call Act #41asks us to use these colours
While over on Our Creative Corner
we are asked for `Christmas in July`, except it`s now August but who`s counting? After several failed attempts to get something lacey I decided to go with this for my card.

It`s a design I used last Christmas after I borrowed ( stole) the idea from Sarita. If you`ve never seen any of Sarita`s beautiful creations you can find her blog HERE .
Please visit, you will be in for a treat.
I started with a DL plain white card.

I stamped an Elusive Images Damask background stamp in royal blue on to white card and embossed in clear EP.Then cut 2 circles with a circle nestie.
I cut the border using my borderbilities classic lace die in navy card stock, then added a slither of fawn card along the edge.
I used foam pads to raise it along the edge of my card.
I cut 2 pieces of navy ribbon at different lengths and added those to my card from the top then placed my ` baubles` circles on foam pads.
I`ve added some tiny blue gems on the circles for added bling and some on my border. I used some larger gems to highlight my sentiment.
Then I made 2 bows to finish my baubles off.
The sentiment is by Creative Expressions and is stamped in Royal Blue.

Not much else to tell you really. Hopefully I won`t be too worn out tomorrow and might even have another card to post seeing as I seem to be on a roll.

Just stunning! The colours are perfect and the sentiment is positioned perfectly to balance out the baubles. A couple of these a week and you'll be sorted come Christmas! Hope work's going well - of course a bit of crafting is just the thing to revive you after a hard day...

Oh this is lovely! One of my favorite Spellbinders border dies and sensational job on the baubles! Great job on the Christmas card challenge. So happy you were able to have some fun with Our Creative Corner this week!